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Employment laws to watch in 2018

Insperity

Employment laws continue to evolve, and 2018 will usher in some big changes in two of our most populous states, California and New York. The HR world is abuzz with all the implications of implementing New York state’s paid family leave legislation and California’s ban-the-box law, both of which went into effect January 2018.

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Don’t let this be the year that your business faces a big wage and hour lawsuit

The Employer Handbook

Thus, today, you get a substantive post about employment law, rather than a terse, “Thanks for reading, suckers!” ” Send Off. This will encourage similar actions in 2016. There were more wage and hour cases filed in 2015 than all other categories of lawsuits. I say that with peace and love.

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Compliance Issues, #MeToo Movement Impact Employers

HRWatchdog

Do you have the same compliance concerns as the employers in this survey? Over the past year, employers’ compliance challenges increased significantly thanks to both an uptick in federal employment law enforcement, and the growing “patchwork” of state and local requirements, according to the 2019 Littler Annual Employer Survey.

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Are paralegals entitled to overtime under the FLSA? Probably.

The Employer Handbook

The class was essentially a primer on the basics of employment law, during which I emphasized both the types of claims on which paralegals may assist clients, and the employment-law issues that the audience may encounter for themselvesat work. The FLSA requires that employees receive minimum wage of not less than $7.25

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HRUSA Launches in 12 States

HRWatchdog

As the new year approaches, businesses are struggling to find current information on new laws and their new responsibilities,” said Larry Dicke of HRUSA. Recently, with the help of Weintraub Tobin, HRUSA published white papers on new laws and noteworthy new legislation for 2016 including: Wage and Hour laws.

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What your business can do NOW to prepare for the DOL ‘Blacklisting’ rules and guidance.

The Employer Handbook

In general terms (I’ll get a little more specific below), the Blacklisting rules require prospective federal contractors and subcontractors to disclose anything that may appear on a laundry list of labor-and-employment-law faux pas. In 2014, President Obama signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order.

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The Devastating Result of a Single Word

HR Daily Advisor

A car wash company provided its employees with a handbook setting forth its employment policies. The handbook was written in both English and Spanish, it required arbitration of employment disputes, and it denied an employee’s right to bring an action under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA).